Free Tutorial: Triplanar Mapping pt. 2 - Normal Maps Entagma 2024-09-30 | In the second Part of this Tutorial, we will tackle Normal Maps. We will talk about coordinate systems and why they affect Normal maps and how to create a system that works even with changing objects.00:00 Intro00:53 Normal Maps and Coordinate Systems 03:57 Setup Preview Texture05:00 Prep Work on the geometry07:27 Modifying the Normal10:58 Matrices!13:23 Blend the Maps14:30 Thank you :)
Free Tutorial: Triplanar Mapping in COPs - pt. 1 Entagma 2024-09-16 | This was asked for in the comments a lot, so Chris made this two-part Tutorial on Triplanar texture Mapping in Copernicus! In this first Video Chris will go into Detail on how to set up a neat triplanar mapping Setup and will guide you through the steps to achieve a really smooth result.Links to the mentioned Videos: youtu.be/5z18ZJaCUOMyoutu.be/Cq5H59G-DHIyoutu.be/xPW9UOhsNnIyoutu.be/dn5zNrH_cFQYou also can download the Scene file for free on: entagma.comAnd for more free Tutorials, consider becoming a Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaWe are thankful for all of your support! Every like, comment or subscription helps a ton! Thank you guys!0:00 Intro and Credits1:08 Prepping for Mapping3:05 Setup the UV Maps4:44 Fix UV Problem 6:51 Creating the Masks10:39 Writing Code for Blending12:55 Make Masks sharper13:52 Add Noise 14:24 Combine into one Texture15:55 Improve the Setup17:20 Remove artifacts20:18 Thank you :)
New Free Tutorial: Triplanar Mapping in Copernicus Entagma 2024-09-13 | Get ready for the free Tutorials about Triplanar Mapping in Copernicus coming this Monday!You wished for this tutorial, so Chris immersed himself in the topic to create these free Tutorials for you Guys! Watch it on Entagma.com and Youtube on Monday, the 16th!See you there and give Chris some love in the comments! Music by Oncys - Eden
ML101 - pt. 03 - Premium Course with Chris Entagma 2024-09-05 | The new Premium Tut about Machine Learning is out!Watch it on Entagma now!This week you get a crashcourse in setting up your VS Code and Python and then we get started with coding!Follow us, we will be more active now and notify yo when a video comes out!See you there! Cheers!
Blender Guest Tutorial: Game of Life Entagma 2024-09-02 | Louis Brodnig is back with another great tutorial and a Game. Conway´s Game of Life to be exact. In this video he shows you how it works and how to make fun animations with it in Blender. Give him some love over on his channel: youtube.com/@lueyyysDownload the Project File:entagma.com/downloads/GameOfLife%20Upload.blend
New Premium Course: Machine Learning 101 Entagma 2024-08-22 | This is a free preview of our brand new Premium Course all about machine learning. To watch new episodes in this series:1. Go to www.patreon.com/entagma2. Support us at the "In-Depth-Knowledge" tier or higher3. Go to entagma.com and log in with your patreon account to unlock all Premium CoursesThis course is about making Machine Learning the next tool in your Houdini toolbox. Just like some problems are best solved with vector maths or Vex or Python, some problems get way easier with ML and we want to be able to spot these problems and solve them using your own custom networks.To do so we create our own training data in Houdini, we build and train our own neural nets with Python and PyTorch and finally integrate them into our Houdini Workflows using ONNX. Additionally we want to take really deep looks into how these setups work and why they’re built the way they are to get a ton of intuition for applying these techniques to new problems.Download Scenefile:entagma.com/downloads/ML101_Ep00_IntroDemos.zipChapters:00:00 Course Introduction02:01 ML Deformer End Result04:47 ML Deformer Pros and Cons06:18 Why this is our first project08:41 Why muscle sims can work with machine learning13:48 Closing Remarks
H20.5: Building a Particle Brush for Copernicus Entagma 2024-08-05 | One of those really fun party trick brushes of Substance Painter is the particle brush, with which we can, well, paint particles onto an object, which in turn will run down it's surface, leaving some nice streaks behind. Houdini has had particles for ages and now also has a really nice texturing workspace with Copernicus - So let's see if we can rebuild them here!Fire Hydrant Model:polyhaven.com/a/fire_hydrantDownload project file here:entagma.com/downloads/H20-5_COPs_ParticleBrush.hipChapters00:00 Intro00:20 POP Setup04:44 Creating Streaks from Particles06:00 Creating Attributes for Copernicus10:37 Copernicus Setup
H20.5: Building a PBR layering asset in Copernicus Entagma 2024-07-22 | In the last video, we showed you our take on a Substance like pbr layering workflow in Copernicus. And in that video we used a custom Digital Asset that allowed us to quickly load in all textures of a pbr material, do some basic tweaks and layer it onto our master material. So in this video, we'll cover how to build this asset and how to build custom nodes in Copernicus in general.Download project file here:entagma.com/downloads/H20-5_COPs_PBR-Layering.zipChapters:00:00 Intro00:33 Base Node Tree07:02 Digital Asset Conversion10:03 Adding Parameters
H20.5: Building a Substance like texturing workflow in Copernicus Entagma 2024-07-22 | We're back! And Houdini now has Copernicus, a complete rebuild of the image workspace with a focus on texturing! So, let's see if we can build a texturing workflow where we can bring in multiple pbr texture sets and layer them onto an object with lot's of fancy masks. Just like, you know, some other texturing tools out there.Assets used:polyhaven.com/a/fire_hydrantpolyhaven.com/a/brown_mud_03cgbookcase.com/textures/painted-metal-03cgbookcase.com/textures/old-iron-01Download project file here:entagma.com/downloads/H20-5_COPs_PBR-Layering.zipChapters:00:00 Intro00:49 Model Prep02:43 Copernicus Setup05:04 PBR Layer HDA08:27 ID Masks (Metal)12:40 Curvature Masks (Metal Scratches)15:59 Directional Masks (Dirt)18:52 Decals (Logo)21:21 Export and Previewing with Karma
Houdini Tutorial: Bending Time With Attributes Entagma 2024-06-17 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaToday we want to take an artifact from digital cameras, something that we usually try to avoid, and turn it up to eleven! Make it an effect on it's own! And that artifact is rolling shutter. To achieve this, we'll need to bend time using point attributes, which we'll do with a bit of SOP trickery.Download the scenefile here:entagma.com/downloads/RollingShutter.zipChapters:00:00 Intro01:17 Base RBD Sim04:17 Calculate Time Offset08:03 Time Shift A: Create Motion Trails10:16 Time Shift B: Reconstruct Motion From Trails13:33 Time Shift C: Offset Time Per Point
Houdini Tutorial: Popping A Soap Bubble Entagma 2024-06-03 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaBubbles! We have a bit of a thing for bubbles here at Entagma. But the one classic Houdini setup we have not done yet is a bubble pop. So let's fix this right now!Download the scenefile here:entagma.com/downloads/SoapBobblePop_v02.hipChapters:00:00 Building the base bubble02:11 Creating the pop mask via a pyro spread sim05:06 Splitting the bubble along the pop line07:44 Flip Sim A: Sop preparations10:44 Flip Sim B: Basic parameter tweaking13:22 Flip Sim C: Driving the sim with our pop mask16:32 Flip Sim D: Adjusting droplet detection, surface tension and reseeding20:59 Flip Sim E: Caching and Meshing22:35 Merging bubble and Flip sim27:54 Rendering in Solaris and Karma
Free Houdini Tutorial: Volume Style Transfer With ONNX Entagma 2024-05-13 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaIn an earlier episode we took a first look at the new ONNX inference node, a node that allows us to use trained neural nets inside Houdini. And today we want to use this node for something usefull - Volume Style Transfer! We want to apply a pretrained style to voxels instead of pixels and give our simulations a unique look and much more detail. And we're going to do all of this using just a tiny bit of machine learing and a lot of SOPs!Watch our previous ONNX episode here:youtu.be/aCAatiY53s8Download the scenefile here:entagma.com/downloads/Free_ONNX_VolumeStyleTransfer.zipChapters:00:00 Intro02:18 A quick and dirty Pyro setup04:57 Creating volume slices09:38 Writing voxel data to slices11:22 Deleting empty slices12:43 Style transfer16:48 Assembling a volume from slices19:00 Mixing with original volume
Nerd Rant S03 E01 - Too Stupid To Pull Focus (Guest: UglyStupidHonest) Entagma 2024-05-06 | Support us so we can learn how to pull focus: www.patreon.com/entagmaChris Hoffmann (UglyStupidHonest): instagram.com/uglystupidhonest/?hl=enComfyUI: github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUIWundt Curve: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2021.698252/fullPixel Composer: makham.itch.io/pixel-composer
Nerd rant S03 E00 - Were back. Again. Entagma 2024-04-22 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaOur new master's program: https://www.design-digital-futures.deOur master's insta: instagram.com/thn_design_master
Free Houdini Tutorial: Machine Learning with ONNX in Houdini 20 Entagma 2024-04-15 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaWith Houdini 20 we got our first official machine learning node from SideFX. While we previously had example scene files that did machine learing related stuff or plugins like mlops, this is the first machine learning tool that you get just by installing Houdini. So we should take a look at what it does and what we can use it for!Download Project File:entagma.com/downloads/Free_ONNX_Intro.hipLinks mentioned in the video:github.com/onnx/modelshuggingface.co/julienkay/sentis-MiDaSChapters:00:00 Intro to ONNX03:14 Getting ONNX Models05:29 MNIST Model09:00 Style Transfer Model15:13 Depth Estimation Model17:37 Limitations
Free Houdini Tutorial: Melting Complex Objects Part 2: Rendering in Karma Entagma 2024-04-01 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaWelcome to the second and final part of our mini series on how to melt complex objects with fine details, textures and multiple materials. All without melting your pc as well! In the first part we built a setup to retain geometric detail and now we're bringing materials, uv coordinates and textures over to our fluid and finally render everything in Karma.Watch part 1 here:youtu.be/fbI91vzBmKoDownload Project File:entagma.com/downloads/Free_MeltingComplexObjects_Part02.zipChapters:00:00 Intro01:27 Creating Material Masks03:51 Transferring UVs08:28 Solaris Setup10:55 Karma CPU Shader14:54 Adding Glow16:32 Karma XPU Shader18:21 Alternative Point Color Workflow
Free Houdini Tutorial: Melting Complex Objects Entagma 2024-03-18 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaYou guys seem to like melting things! So over the next two videos on our Youtube channel, we're going to answer one of the more common questions: How to melt more complex objects with fine details, textures and multiple materials. All without melting your pc as well!Watch Mo's original video here:youtu.be/B3W-S0EW9xwDownload Project File:entagma.com/downloads/Free_MeltingComplexObjects.zipChapters:00:00 Intro01:11 Starter File Overview03:58 Fluid Prep07:46 High Res Object Prep09:37 Fluid Meshing13:11 High Res Object Deforming19:07 Blending Both And Finishing The Effect
Free Houdini Tutorial: Sci Fi Panel Deformer with OpenSubDiv Patches Entagma 2024-03-04 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaIn this episode we're using a little geometry processing trick to build a sci fi panel deformer, much like some of the tools in the Tissue addon for Blender. We'll also learn how to use some of the OpenSubDiv functions within Vex in Houdini.We highly recommend this additional OpenSubDiv tutorial by Konstantin Magnus:youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZiYXbN3y0Download Project File:entagma.com/downloads/Freetut_OSD_Deformer.zip
Blender Guest Tutorial: Differential Line Growth Entagma 2024-02-19 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaWe are happy to bring you another Blender Tutorial with the help of Louis Brodnig. He will show you how to create a differential line growth set up with Blender Geometry Nodes that he used in his Youtube Video about Emergence. Check out Louis Youtube Video:youtube.com/watch?v=cXVTIpYDJa4Download Project File:entagma.com/downloads/Differential%20Line%20Growth%20BlenderGeoNodes.blend
Free Houdini Tutorial: Particle Life in Houdini POPs Entagma 2024-02-05 | Particle Life is a new(ish), super popular autonomous agent system that is able to produce very organic, microorganism-like patterns with particles. So of course we had to build our own version in Houdini, right? In this video we'll cover the basic ideas of Particle Life and build it as a POP force, which works both in 2D and 3D.Links mentioned in the video:ventrella.com/Clustersyoutube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0Download Project Filesentagma.com/downloads/Freetut_ParticleLife.zipTimecodes:00:00 Intro and Theory07:14 Houdini Prep12:19 Coding the Algorithm19:26 Playing with the Algorithm
New In Houdini 20: Cloud Workflow Entagma 2024-01-15 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaHoudini 20 comes with a completely rebuilt cloud workflow, which makes it a whole lot easier to create a wide variety of realistic clouds. So let's build one from scratch and take a look at the new cloud shape tools, noises and shaders!Downlload Scene File: entagma.com/downloads/Freetut_H20_Clouds.hip
New In Houdini 20: Karma - Physical Sky, Thin Walled Transmission, Material Linker And More Entagma 2023-12-05 | In this episode we'll take the 'fresh out of beta' Karma XPU for a spin and talk about the new physical sky, thin walled transmission, material linker, snapshot menu and ACES setup.Download Project File:entagma.com/downloads/H20_SopsDopsKarma.zip
New In Houdini 20: DOPs - POP Wind Shadow, Glass Fracture, Pyro Gravity And More Entagma 2023-12-05 | In this episode we'll take a quick look at the new simulation tools and features in Houdini 20, specifically the new POP Wind Shadow, updates to the Vellum rest blend constraint and vellum brush, the new density controlled gravity in pyro as well as some new fracturing options and sticky collisions with RBDs.Download Scene File:entagma.com/downloads/H20_SopsDopsKarma.zip
New In Houdini 20: Feathers 01 - Creating Feathers Entagma 2023-11-20 | Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let's take a look at all of it.In this episode we're creating our feather templates from a photo reference you can download here:featherbase.info/en/species/Erithacus/rubeculaentagma.com/downloads/H20_Feathers.zipVideo Chapters: 0:00 Importing the Feather Template1:06 Creating the Feather2:53 Tweaking Parameters4:01 Closer Look at the Feather Geometry5:13 New Nodes to customize Feathers8:50 Manipulate Feather Geometry9:50 Naming for multiple Feathers10:36 Using the Template as a UV Texture12:58 Cache the Result
New In Houdini 20: Feathers 02 - Grooming Feathers Entagma 2023-11-20 | Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let's take a look at all of it.In this episode we build a plumage from the templates we created in episode one using the standard Houdini grooming tools as well as something a bit more procedural.entagma.com/downloads/H20_Feathers.zipChapters: 0:00 Set up a Groom1:21 Groom the traditional way2:18 Guide Groom Node4:52 Get a high Poly Version 5:55 a more procedural Approach7:19 Turn Guide Curves into Feathers8:43 Fix Orientation9:12 Deintersect Feathers10:30 Fix UV Texture
New In Houdini 20: Feathers 03 - Simulating And Rendering Entagma 2023-11-20 | Houdini 20 is out and the literal poster child of this release is the new Feather workflow. And this really is a whole workflow, because it offers tools not only for creating feathers but also for creating a whole plumage, simming and rendering. So, let's take a look at all of it.In this episode we'll simulate our groom using Vellum and finally bring our character into Karma for rendering.entagma.com/downloads/H20_Feathers.zip
Houdini Guest Tutorial: Dart Throwing Entagma 2023-10-02 | Support us on www.patreon.com/entagmaWe’re thrilled to have Andreas Catucci as a guest! Somehow aside from creating amazing work, he managed to record a video on a technique very dear to our hearts: Dart throwing. Sounds like simulating aerodynamics? Not quite. It’s a method to densely pack a surface with non-overlapping geometry.Not only does Andreas cover the implementation but also does an amazing job explaining the why.Check out Andreas' Portfolio:andreascatucci.comDownload Project File:entagma.com/downloads/A_Dartthrower_v01.hipnc
Houdini Free Tutorial: Interference Patterns On Surfaces Entagma 2023-09-25 | Supportus on Patreon: www.patreon.com/entagmaFor more visit: www.entagma.comToday we’re revisiting an old setup of ours: Creating intricate interference patterns using circular waves. Time has passed since Mo built the first version of this in 2018 and now, with Houdini 19.5, we got a new node that finally allows us to calculate those patterns on 3d surfaces as well.Download Project File: entagma.com/downloads/Freetut_InterferencePatternsOnSurfaces.zip
Houdini Tutorial: Paper Folding with Vellum Entagma 2023-07-24 | Support us on: www.patreon.com/entagmaIn this video Chris covers a simple way of simulating origami like patterns in Houdini and Vellum, just using edge groups and (depending on how you count them) three or six lines of vex.We can very much recommend watching Junichiro Horikawa's previous explorations on the topic here:youtube.com/watch?v=VKO4DUso3Bsyoutube.com/watch?v=J91mQ9OJq6syoutube.com/watch?v=2f3joj3RUCoDownload the project file here:entagma.com/downloads/VellumFolding.zipKapitel00:00:00 Setting up fold groups02:24:18 A bit of theory05:48:17 Transferring fold groups to bend constraints09:07:06 Animating the folds
Nerd Rant: Python Entagma 2023-07-17 | Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/entagmaGet MLOPs: www.bismuth.at/mlops
Nerd Rant: MLOPs - Machine Learning In Houdini Entagma 2023-07-04 | Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/entagmaGet MLOPs: www.bismuth.at/mlops
Free Houdini Tutorial: Simulating A Belt Adjuster In Vellum Entagma 2023-06-26 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaMore on: www.entagma.comThere are some setups that start out looking quite easy and then get harder the more you start thinking about them. And this belt adjuster is one of them because we got quite a few elements interacting with each other. As usual with Vellum, the solution here is choosing the right constraints and then tweaking lot's of values, which is exactly what we're covering in this episode.
New in MLOPs Entagma 2023-05-29 | Get MLOPs: www.bismuth.at/mlopsWe just released a major update for Machine Learning Operators (MLOPs) in Houdini. Here's the rundown of its major new features. There's more, just go to our Github and join our Discord to find out!00:00 - SAM (Segment Anything Model)01:03 - Remove BG01:45 - UMAP Dimensionality Reduction03:07 - Image Similarity Measurement04:20 - Prompt Similarity Measurement05:00 - BLIP Caption & CLIP Interrogate06:07 - Camera To Points07:40 - CLIP Image Embeddings08:20 - RESRGAN Upressing09:03 - InstructPix2Pix09:51 - Stable Diffusion Pipeline Node10:43 - Teaser: Training11:00 - Infamous Last Words
A huge MLOPs For Houdini Upgrade Is Coming! Entagma 2023-05-25 | Monday May 29th 2023https://bismuth.at/mlops
MLOPS: Viewport To Texture Entagma 2023-05-09 | Download MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlopsInstalling MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYFirst Setup:youtu.be/3kVB-bNWeYA00:00 - Intro/Setup00:43 - Setting Up Stable Diffusion01:42 - Depth Map From Viewport Camera & ControlNet03:16 - Backprojection / Texturing05:02 - Backsides (Clip & Flip)06:25 - Infamous Last Words
Building a Latent Space in Houdini: Part 1 – Theory Entagma 2023-05-08 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaThis week we want to give you a lot more insight into what a latent space actually is and how it gets created. In this case not by using Stable Diffusion, but by building and training our own neural net inside Houdini, who’s only job is to create a very simple latent space for us to explore.In this video we’ll go over the main concepts and the theory of our latent space. And on Thursday in the Advanced Setups Course on Patreon, we’ll build the entire setup using Houdini and Pytorch.You can find all visualisations from this video to explore by yourself in the scene file. Make sure you have access to Pytorch and Numpy in your Houdini Python environment, for example by installing the MLOPs Addon.Download MLOPsgithub.com/Bismuth-Consultancy-BV/MLOPsParts of this setup are inspired by this article by Eugenia Anellomedium.com/dataseries/convolutional-autoencoder-in-pytorch-on-mnist-dataset-d65145c132acentagma.com/downloads/MyFirstLatentSpace_Part01.zip
Strange Forests: Creating 2.5D Images with MLOPs and Faking DOF in Point clouds Entagma 2023-05-01 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaNow that MLOPs is released and available for everyone, let's create some motion graphics using those new tools and combine them with other workflows we already know from Houdini. In this video Chris shows you how he created these strange forest renders while beta-testing MLOPs and how to fake depth of field inside point clouds.Get MLOPs for Houdini: https://bismuth.at/mlopsMLOPs Installation Instructionsyoutube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYMLOPs Txt2Imgyoutube.com/watch?v=3kVB-bNWeYAMLOPs Controlnetsyoutube.com/watch?v=_bxir7qGjzQentagma.com/downloads/MLOPsStrangeForests.zip
MLOPS: Random Walk in Latent Space Entagma 2023-04-26 | Download MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlopsInstalling MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYFirst Setup:youtu.be/3kVB-bNWeYA00:00 - Intro/Setup00:24 - Theory00:43 - Implementation02:05 - Bugfixing02:25 - Parameter Fiddling03:22 - Examples03:45 - Infamous Last Words
MLOPS: Prompt Blending Entagma 2023-04-25 | Download MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlopsInstalling MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYFirst Setup:youtu.be/3kVB-bNWeYA00:00 - Intro/Setup01:54 - Prompt Blending04:50 - Prompt Arithmetic
MLOPS: ControlNet Entagma 2023-04-24 | Download MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlopsInstalling MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYFirst Setup:youtu.be/3kVB-bNWeYA00:00 - Intro / Standard Setup01:03 - Simple ControlNet03:45 - Multi ControlNet05:31 - Inpainting Using ControlNet06:40 - Infamous Last Words
MLOPS: IMG2IMG Workflow & Masking / Inpainting Entagma 2023-04-23 | Download MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlopsInstalling MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYFirst Setup:youtu.be/3kVB-bNWeYA00:00 - Img2Img Workflow01:54 - Masking/Inpainting
MLOPs Tutorial: My First Stable Diffusion Setup Entagma 2023-04-22 | Installing MLOPs:youtube.com/watch?v=rtgghkYKKLYDownload MLOPs:https://www.bismuth.at/mlops00:00 - Intro00:32 - Prompt Create00:41 - Tokenizer00:53 - Text Encoder01:25 - Negative Prompt01:42 - Scheduler02:08 - Latent Noise Generate02:35 - Solver & Scheduler Parameters03:25 - Running The Solver03:45 - Visualizing Latents04:07 - Image Decoder04:28 - Image Export05:15 - Infamous Last Words
Houdini Tutorial: Simulating Curling Ribbons in Vellum Entagma 2023-04-10 | Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/entagmaThe idea for this video came from a question on our Patreon Community Hub, asking us how we'd go about creating curling ribbons in vellum, similar to a very beautiful setup by Playback Design. And, as it turns out, this is a quite fun and simple build!00:31 Single Ribbon: Build03:45 Single Ribbon: Sim08:30 Creating Copies10:50 Many Ribbons: Animation Attribute14:37 Many Ribbons: Animating15:24 Many Ribbons: Sim17:30 Fixing Index Issues And ReSimmingOriginal project by Playback Design:behance.net/gallery/160665727/PhyllotaxisDownload Project File: entagma.com/downloads/VellumCurlingRibbons.hip
Houdini Tutorial: Building a DIY Render Engine Like Its 1975 Entagma 2023-03-13 | support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaWhat do you do when you need fast info passes rendered out but are too stupid to set up something in ROPs and too lazy to use Solaris? Right - you build yourself a 1970s render engine straight in SOPs. Clever? Not sure. Useful? Definitely. Make sure to check back on entagma.com on Thursday for this week's premium tut to see what we can use these passes for.Download Scene File: entagma.com/downloads/diy_renderer_02.hip00:00 - Intro00:54 - Setting Up Something To Render01:48 - Building The Renderer: Image Plane02:55 - Transforming Image Plane To Camera Space04:25 - Ray Directions05:57 - Merging In Render Geometry07:24 - Geometry Intersections / Rendering Depth12:22 - Writing Our Rendering Into Volumes14:22 - Rendering Normal Map17:12 - Rendering Segmentation Map19:16 - Rendering A Cheap Diffuse Pass22:50 - Aux Maps To Volumes24:28 - Importing Volumes To COPs for Compositing25:22 - Anti-Aliasing26:23 - Recap / Infamous Last Words
Tutorial: Controlling Stable Diffusion With Houdini and Automatic1111 WebUI Entagma 2023-03-09 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaOf course Mo could take the high road and build a stable diffusion pipeline using Huggingface’s Diffusers library… But let’s not kid ourselves. Thanks to Automatic1111’s API Mo can duct tape together Houdini and WebUI to use both of these awe inspiring powerful tools to generate… dog images. Welcome to the brave new world that is design!Download Project File: entagma.com/downloads/SD_txt2img_003a.hip00:00 - Intro00:50 - Setting up Automatic1111 WebUI's API01:49 - Houdini Basic Scene Setup03:10 - Python Imports & Writing Images To Volumes08:07 - Main Routine: Controlling WebUI With Python13:25 - Extracting Our Data From WebUI15:38 - Moving The Data To Compositing
Houdini Tutorial: Creating Escher Inspired Tiling Tesselations Entagma 2023-02-27 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/entagmaJeroen Claus of phospho.co.uk happens to know a particular kind of software that's pretty good at applying a set of geometrical rules. So he sets out to take you on a journey of building Escher inspired tesselations.Download Project File (.hiplc): entagma.com/downloads/Entagma_EscherTessellation_v01.hiplc
Tutorial: Creating an AI Chimera Using Stable Diffusion Entagma 2023-02-21 | Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/entagmaMore on: www.entagma.comWe continues poking into stable diffusion by giving a brief overview of what tokens and embeddings are and how the can be manipulated to blend between prompts. Finally we create some nonsensical animals.Huge thanks to Chris Hoffmann (ugly stupid honest): instagram.com/uglystupidhonestNotebook: Stable Diffusion Deep Dive: github.com/fastai/diffusion-nbs/blob/master/Stable%20Diffusion%20Deep%20Dive.ipynbThe Illustrated Stable Diffusion: jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusionAutomatic1111's WebUI: github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui00:00 - Intro / Theory00:55 - Visualizing Tokens / Embeddings using WebUI03:03 - Stable Diffusion Deep Dive as Basis03:55 - Modifying The Notebook05:22 - Custom Compact Notebook08:16 - Why Not Use WebUI?08:55 - Infamous Last WordsDownload Project File (.ipynb): entagma.com/downloads/StableDiffusion_BlendEmbeds2_003.zip
Guest Tutorial: Dr. Jeroen Claus - Creating a Data Driven Waddington Landscape Entagma 2023-02-16 | We are very excited to host our dear friend Dr. Jeroen Claus of phospho.co.uk with a very special tutorial.He's been working together with http://tape-lab.com, UCL Cancer Research's Cell Communication Laboratory, to visualise data from their study "A Single-cell Perturbation Landscape of Colonic Stem Cell Polarisation", which is now available as preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.15.528008v1 In this video, Jeroen shows how you can use single cell RNA sequencing data to create a data-driven version of the Waddington Landscape, a classical graphic from the 50s representing the possible developmental paths of a cell. This new way to visualise single cell RNA sequencing data helps to make dimensional reductions of huge amounts of data more intuitive to interpret and understand.While the data might be complex, the Houdini setup is rather straightforward: this tutorial will give you an overview of how to get csv data into Houdini, and with only a few nodes build an effective data visualisation.Download Project Files (.zip): entagma.com/downloads/Waddington_Landscapes_Tutorial.zip
Creating a Rolling Objects Solver in Houdini Part 7 Entagma 2023-02-10 | Support us on: patreon.com/entagmaIn part seven of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer (https://prdx.de/) modifies our solver to take into account random initial rotation and so it works with cubes instead of tubes.And with this final bonus tutorial - it's a wrap! Thanks so much to Bastian for sharing his knowledge!Visit his website to check out some of the amazing projects he 's worked on: https://prdx.de00:00 - Bonus: Rolling Cubes02:08 - Deep Dive: A More Precise Rotation Approach10:36 - Up-Facing Discs on Displaced Surfaces16:07 - Random Initial Rotation on the DiscsDownload Project Files: entagma.com/downloads/Rolling-Objects-Tutorial.zip
Creating a Rolling Objects Solver in Houdini Part 6 Entagma 2023-02-10 | Support us on: patreon.com/entagmaIn part six of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer (https://prdx.de/) modifies our solver so it works with discs instead of spheres.00:00 - Intro / Building the Test Geometry02:42 - Extending the SolverDownload Project Files: entagma.com/downloads/Rolling-Objects-Tutorial.zip
